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Often I receive letters from children who read my stories, and one question that is nearly always put to me in the letters is: “Did it really happen?” But, you see, I cannot always answer this…
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Leah Goldberg
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1966
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In the meantime, they reached HaYarkon Street. The three couples climbed on their bicycles again and said goodbye. From afar, a fire siren was heard, the usual background music of Lag BaOmer. Merav’s…
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Shulamit Lapid
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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Stealing the TigerThe moment she entered the room, she noticed something suspicious out of the corner of her eye. Dror and Koby stood next to her bed and pretended to tie their shoelaces. She knew…
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Nurit Zarchi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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When I try to think which game I like the most, I usually think of make-believe acting games. Even if they’re without masks, funny clothes, or old shoes with wrinkled tongues. Even if there’s no…
Contributor:
Uzzi Ben Cnaan
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1979
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It was noon and a small boy lay on the couch in the room. The woolly coverlet prickled his back, making him toss about uncomfortably. His eyes roved across the ceiling and down the blank walls to the…
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Benjamin Tammuz
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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Formations of soldiers faced each other across the floor, taking cover in domino houses and bunkers of colored blocks. Yurik and Kazik lay by their soldiers. [ . . . ]
But Kazik had stopped playing…
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Uri Orlev
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1958
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Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…
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Amos Elon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1971
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From his earliest childhood, Dani was happy, sociable, and cooperative. When he was in Tova’s kindergarten, he loved to sit together with the children and sing: “Yulla yulla, what’ll we do without our…
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Amos Kenan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1952
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This is a night of vigil for me,
in the shudder of my soul
I shall conceal
the secret of my youth.
I shall stand on guard:
No sleep nor slumber!
And in just one moment
the veil was taken away.
A…
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Bat-Hamah
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1954
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“You be the man. You lead!”
So his mother commanded him, taking his reluctant hands and putting them firmly around her middle. “Go on, lead!” She smiled at him. He could feel her breath on his face…
Contributor:
David Grossman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991